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“To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman.“ Young and shy Quentin Jacobsen was in for the night of his life when Margo the most popular student in high school, convinces him to help her play some naughty pranks on the friends who have betrayed her. The next day, Margo is nowhere to be found. With help from a few friends and some clues that she left behind, Quentin begins on an obsessive mission to find the girl who stole his heart and made him feel happy. In the novel Paper Towns, John green infers human connections are often fake because people are inherently selfish.

Margo Roth Spiegelman is the girl who "loved mysteries so much that she became one ", and while in school she seems to be the most dreamy girl of them all. John Green quotes “Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe, she loved mysteries so much that she
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Shed always leave clues as to where she was going and be back in a few short days. But this time was different. Orlando, Florida was a paper town to her. She hated it there and everyone there too. She said to Q, “I’ve lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.” She has a side that no one is aware of until Quentin and his friends secretly go into Margo’s room to search for clues. She has a whole record set collection and no one knew of her interest in music and she carries a black notebook everywhere but once again, no one knows what it is. Another odd side of Margo is her habit of running away leaving vague clues. In her previous run away, she left the letters, M, I, S, and P hinting that she left for Mississippi, and the time that she spent the night in Disney World, she left a Minnie Mouse doll on her bed. Later on she explains how she is a paper girl being all fake and needing to travel around instead of being stuck in one

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